Cygnus A (3C 405)
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Cygnus A (3C 405) 4.8 GHz VLA map courtesy of C. Carilli
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The strongest extragalactic radio source and third strongest radio source in the sky (after the Sun and Cassiopeiae A). At one time believed to be the result of a collision of two galaxies, it has now been identified as a classic double-lobed radio galaxy that, at optical wavelengths, is a 15th magnitude cD galaxy (a supergiant elliptical) lying about one billion light-years away in the constellation Cygnus.
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